The Hillson FH.40 Hurricane, a slip-wing fighter aircraft, transformed during flight by jettisoning its upper wing and ...

A monoplane has aerodynamic advantages, but for one to achieve its full potential its wings need to be cantilevers, and they have to be built in such a way as to resist twisting.

THE recent order of the War Office suspending the use of monoplane flying machines for military purposes has led to the renewal, in the daily Press, of a discussion of the old riddle, “Which is ...

Fashions in fighting planes have changed since the War. Nearly all nations have gone over from the once popular biplane type to the monoplane. But the U. S. government has continued satisfied with ...

They rented a building in downtown Wichita, Kansas, and brought to life their first biplane, the Travel Air Model A. The fledgling company built and sold 19 of the OX-5 powered airplanes, at ...

Showtime112. How The Top Finnish Biplane Ace Fought the Russians (Winter War 1939/40) Posted: June 19, 2025 | Last updated: June 19, 2025. In November 1939, the USSR invaded Finland after this ...

The biplane concept would peak during the First World War, when biplanes proved to be the dominant aircraft design used in the war. By the time of the Second World War, however, the biplane’s ...

WASHINGTON – About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide from ...